Toilet-soap hanger.



No. 872,721. PATENTED'DEC'. s, 1907.

F. J. FOX.

TOILET SOAP HANGER. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 30.26.1906.

NVENTOR. FR J'. Fox

FRANK J. FOX, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TOILET-SOAP HANGER.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed December 26, 1906. Serial No. 349,424.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. Fox, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Soap Hangers, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a toilet soap hanger, and the object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive device which is to be used in connection with public lavatories, which device maintains a cake of soap in convenient position adjacent a wash bowl, is so arranged as to prevent the theft of soap, and is so constructed as to automatically withdraw the soap from the wash bowl after use, thus preventing the soap from being wasted by being left in the wash bowl.

My invention further consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wash bowl, above which is positioned a hanger of my improved construction, carrying a cake of toilet soap; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a cake of soap having one of the wire fasteners embedded therein, and attached to the hanger; Fig. 3 is a view analogous to Fig. 2, and showing the means of disconnecting the attaching device from the hanger after the cake of soap has been entirely used; Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the retractile coil spring I make use of in carrying out my invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings :1 designates a flexible hanger, preferably in the form of a small chain, the upper end of which is secured to a screw eye 2, or similar fastening device, which is seated in the wall immediately above a wash bowl.

3 designates a retractile coil spring, of such resiliency as that it will readily yieldunder a light pull, and the upper end of said coil spring is fixed in a cap 4, through which the chain 1 passes, and said cap and upper coil of the spring are rigidly fixed in any suitable manner to one of the links of the chain immediately below the screw eye 2.

manner to a link of the chain 1, there being a slack portion of said chain arranged on the interior of the coil spring 3, which arrangement is provided in order that the coil spring 3 may be extended when the ortion of the chain 1 below the cap 5 is pulle downwardly.

Secured in any suitable manner to the lower end of the chain 1 is a short cylinder 6, in the lower end of which is an aperture 7.

The cakes of soap, such as 8, which areintended to be used with a hanger of my improved construction are provided with wire loops 9, which are embedded in said cakes of soap at the time of their manufacture, and the ends of each loop are extended from one end of the cake of soap, and twisted together into a hook 10, which is forced upwardly through the aperture 7 when a cake of soap is attached to the hanger. V

The hanger, when positioned for use, maintains the cake of soap immediately above the wash bowl, and the normal condition of the spring 3 maintains a slack portion of the chain on the interior of said spring, and, when in use, the cake of soap is grasped and drawn downwardly into the bowl, which action expands the coil spring 3, and straightens out a part of the slack portion of the chain on the interior of said spring.

After use, or as soon as the cake of soap is released, the retractile coil spring elevates the portion of the chain 1 below the cap 5, and correspondingly elevates the cake of soap, thus bringing it into a position entirely above the shelf or slab in which the wash bowl is positioned, and where it can drain and quickly dry.

My improved device prevents cakes of soap from being removed or stolen from the washstand, and said cakes are immediately withdrawn from the wash bowl after use, thereby preventing said cake of soap from being accidentally left in the water in the Wash bowl.

After a cake of soap has been entirely used, the loop 9 is removed from the cylinder 6 by forcing said loop upwardly through the aperture 7, and out through the open upper end of said cylinder.

My improved device is applicable for use in all public lavatories, maintains the soap in a convenient position for use, and is particularly adapted for preventing the theft of the soap, and, at the same time, is the means of obtaining the greatest length of service of the soap.

The slack of the chain, or that portion arranged on the interior of the ,coil spring 3, limits the distance to which said coil spring may be extended, and thereby prevents breakage or distortion of said spring due to an excessive pull.

I claim A device of the class described, comprising a' flexible hanger, a retractile coil sprin inclosing a normally slack portion of said exible hanger, caps fixed to the ends of the coil spring and to the flexible hanger, a tube attached to the lower end of the hanger, a

wire loop adapted to be embedded in a cake of soap, the upper end'of which Wire loop is 15 twisted together and formed into a hook, and

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two 20 subscribing witnesses.

FRANK J. FOX.

Witnesses:

M. P. SMITH, H. G. FLETCHER. 

